Rotary cabinet



(No Model.)

J. E. STEPHENS. ROTARY CABINET.

Patented Jan. 14, 1896.

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ROTARY CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,081, dated January 14, 1896. Application tiled April 19, 1895. Serial No, 546,327. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, JAMES E. STEPHENS, of Ochlochnee, in the county of Thomas and State of Georgia, have invented a new and Improved Rotary Cabinet, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved rotary cabinet for containing fibrous fabric in rolls, so as to permit the removal of a desired quantity of the goods from any roll.

The object of the invention is to provide a rotatable cabinet for conveniently and safely holding a number of separate pivoted rolls of lace or embroidery, and affording suitable delivery-apertures in the walls of the cabinet through which the goods in any roll may be withdrawn and the remaining portion be preserved on the roll unexposed to light, dust, or detrimental handling.

A further object is to provide a lace or embroidery cabinet with an attached wrapping device for facilitating the rerolling of the goods from the original packages, to place the same on spools that are provided as a part of the improvement.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts, as is hereinafter described, and indicated in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is aperspective view of the im proved cabinet, showing the wrapping device adjusted for use. Fig. 2 is a sectional side view of the cabinet, showing the arranger ment of parts within the case of said cabinet. Fig. 8 is an enlarged partly sectional detail view showing the manner of supporting and retaining one of the spools in position on a wall of the cabinetcase, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged plan view of the wrapping device that constitutes an attachment for the cabinet.

In carrying into eifect the features of iinprovement a base-board 10 is provided, whereon a preferably rectangular case 11 is supported by an upright post 12 and casters 13. The post 12 may be tapered from base stationed erect on the base-board, passing through a central aperture in the bottom wall of the case 11, and enga ging an upright pivotstud 12, that is fixed in the top of the said post, with a cuppedv screw-bolt 12b of hard material adj ustably fixed in the center of the top wall of the case, which will afford a support for the case, having but slight frictional contact therewith. The casters 13 are attached to the lower surface of the case 11 at points which will adapt them to prevent the case from wabbling on its pivotal support and thus insure the easy rotary movement of the case on the base-board.

The case 11 is preferably divided into three sections, of which c is the central section, and l) c the side sections, the side sections being hinged to the central section, and providing what may be regarded as deeply-re cessed lids therefor, as is shown in Fig. 2, the three sections being held in closed condition by hooks cl or other means. At suitable points on one side wall of the central section a, and also on the sections h and c, two bracket-strips 1i are vertically secured on each section, which strips are so spaced apart that a series of spools may be located between said strips, the spools each having axially-projecting pintles 15 at their ends, which may occupy and revolve in pairs of notches, such as 15", (plainly shown in Fig. 3,) these notches being each downwardly and inwardly inclined about an equal depth, so that the pintles 15TL may rest and freely rotate therein.

Preferably the spools 15 are held in place on the bracket-strips 14 by detentsprings 1G, the form of which is indicated in Fig. 3, there being a spring-detent for each notch 15b, and the said detents may be formed of wire, as represented, or be made of strips of elastic plate material as may be preferred. It will be seen that lace, embroidery or other material A, that will wrap on the spools 15, may be so wrapped, and then the spools may be placed in position on the bracket-strips 14. Opposite each spool or support for the same a slit 17 is formed in the wall of the case 10,

and through said slits an end of the fabric A may be extended, so that a small portion will hang outside of each slit, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

To prepare the improved cabinet for use, a quantity of the delicate goods, such as iine laces or embroidery, is wrapped on the spools l5, and an end portion of the material is eX- tended from each spool through an opposite slit of the case, as has been explained.

In the selection of a particular style or quality of the goods contained in the cabinet, it is only necessary that the purchaser be shown the pattern displayed by the exposed end portions of the goods, which will avoid injurious handing of the iine material or its improper exposure to dirt or dust, which by usual methods of storing and sale of laces and like material frequently occurs to the detriment of the goods.

For conveniently rewrapping the laces or embroideries on the spools from the ordinary notched cards whereon such material is usually Wrapped to preserve it from being mussed, the wrapping device shown in Figs. l and is provided. The rewinding device consists of the bed-piece 18, that is hinged to the lower margin or edge of an aperture 18 formed in the case-section d, of correct dimensions to receive the said bed-piece, and on the bed-piece two standards 1Sb are erected, one of the standards being fast to the piece 1S, and the other one adaptedV to slide lengthwise of the latter, having a slotted arm 18 that rests on the bed-piece, and is securedv thereto by means of a clamping-bolt 18d that engages the bed-piece through the slot of the arm, as clearly shown in Fig. 4, or the arm may be otherwise adjustably fastened to the bed-piece.

In use the bed-piece is horizontally disposed, and any one of the spools 15 may be rotatably mounted on the standards 1S" by adjusting the slidable standard in an obvious manner, and the spool may then be rotated by a crank-handle 19, which is adapted to engage with one projecting pintle of the spool so mounted. Vhen the spool that is held on the winding-machine is revolved, lace or embroidery may be wrapped thereon, as indicated at A in Fig. l, and after the spool is filled it may be placed in the cabinet-case for removal as required, in the manner hereinbefore explained, and all the spools may be so filled with a varied assortment of laces or like goods. l/Vhen the winding-machine is not needed, it can be folded upwardly so as to enter the standards within the case l0, the bed-piece being held in the aperture of the case-section a by a spring-catch or other means.

For convenience in illustrating and describing the cabinet two bracket-strips 14 have been shown and described as being placed on each side wall of the case; but it is not intended in the cabinet is afforded, as compared with the usual method of displaying such goods by permitting customers to handle them freely; and as no handling is allowed, eX- cept of the exposedushort ends of the fabrics, it Will bke seen that injury is prevented, while opportunity for examination of quality and patterns of goods is freely afforded by the improved cabinet.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patenti. The combination with a base board, and a central post thereon, of a rotary case comprisinga central section mounted on the said post, and two side sections hinged to the central section and adapted to be swung open, each of the said sections having slits in its Walls, and rotatable spools removably supported in the said sections opposite the slits. a screw bolt adj ustably secured in the top wall of the central section and a pivot stud and socket connection between the adjustable screw bolt and the top of the said post, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a base board, and a post arranged centrally thereon and having a pivot stud at its top, of a rotary case having slits in its walls and rotatable spools removably supported Within the case opposite the slits in the walls, the said case being mounted on the said post and provided with casters adapted to move on the said base board, and a cupped screw bolt adj ustably secured in the top wall of the case and engaging the pivot stud on the top of the post, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a cabinet having an aperture formed in one of its walls, of a spool rotating device comprising a bed piece hinged to fold in the said aperture of the case and close the same, and spool supporting standards arranged on the bed piece, one of said standards being adjustable thereon, substantially as shown and described.

4. In a lace or embroidery cabinet substantially as described, the combination With an apertured wall of the cabinet case, of a spool rotating device, comprising abed piece hinged to fold in the aperture of the case, and spoolsupporting standards on the bed piece, one standard having an adjustable arm and adapted thereby for longitudinal adjustment on the bed piece, substantially as described.

5. In a lace or embroidery cabinet, the combination with an apertured wall of the cabi- IOO net case, of zt spool rotating device, comprising a bed piece hinged to the lower margin or edge of the said aperture and adapted to fold thex'en, and Spool supporting standards erected on-the bed piece, one of said standards being fast to the bed piece, and the other hewnga slotted amm and adapted thereby for longitudinal adjustment on the bed piece and a damping bolt extending though the slotted 2mn and engaging the bed piece, substantially 1 o as described.

JAMES E. STEPHENS.

"Witnesses:

W. H. CALHOUN, C. T. F. CARDIN. 

